This is an embellished seam on block 63 of the I dropped the Button Box Quilt. The seam is first covered with a braid then along the edge of the seam I worked little flower motifs made up of straight stitches, cast on stitches and detached chain stitches. I used a …
It is time to return to telling the story of what I did on each block in my I dropped the Button Box Quilt. This is an embellished area on block 63 I trimmed a piece of hand dyed lace which I dyed using procion dyes. If you look carefully you will …
I am gradually getting back onto the swing of stitching. One of my goals this year is to finish what I call my lace quilt. Just to remind folks The blocks in the lace quilt are 7 inch blocks and there are 49 to do so I am slowly working …
This seam is on block 63 of the I dropped the Button Box Quilt. I covered the seam with hand dyed lace which I did using procion dyes. I then added blue seed beads and few straight stitches on the flowers. I used perle #8 cotton. What is the story? …
This seam is on block 63 of the I dropped the Button Box Quilt. It is a line of feather stitch worked in a metallic thread. I then added French knots to the arms. What is the story? This regularly published series aims to illustrate and document the hand embroidered …
Block 63 is another jewel tone that forms part of the central band of blocks that run diagonally across the I Dropped the Button Box quilt. Jewel toned blocks are sometimes hard to photograph and I hope you can see this clearly. There is a photograph of the full quilt …
This seam is on block 62 of the I dropped the Button Box Quilt. It is covered with hand dyed lace and along the side I worked half buttonhole rings, detached chain and straight stitches in hand dyed silk. What is the story? This regularly published series aims to illustrate …
